Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester
Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (baptised 7 April 1767 – 23 May 1828) was a Tory British Member of Parliament and later peer.
Born Cecil Forester and baptised at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury,[1] he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal licence in 1811, upon inheriting Willey Park from his cousin George Forester. He was elected to the House of Commons for Wenlock in 1790, a seat he held until 1820. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Forester, of Willey Park in the County of Shropshire.
Lord Forester married Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland, in 1800. He died of gout at Belgrave Square, London in 1828, aged 61, and was buried at Willey parish church.[2] He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son John George Weld-Forester. Lady Forester died in 1829. His descendants would later be in the British line of succession to the throne through his descendant Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester and Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, the wife of his great-grandson, Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood.
Notes
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2013) |
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Lundy, Darryl. "p. 1598 § 15976". The Peerage.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher=
- Use dmy dates from January 2012
- 1767 births
- 1828 deaths
- Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
- British MPs 1790–96
- British MPs 1796–1800
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1801–02
- UK MPs 1802–06
- UK MPs 1807–12
- UK MPs 1812–18
- UK MPs 1818–20